Heartiest congratulations on surviving around these lunatics for a whole year! Seriously, your voice is absolutely essential to any discussion of parity in science and engineering. Sorry to miss you in NYC, otherwise I would’ve bought you a celebratory beer.

Here’s to many more years of writing about things “so atrocious and disgusting” that we’ll all continue to be “horking up [our] breakfast.” My idealistic hope is that you’ll run out of things to write about but I’m afraid the sad truth is that academia will be giving you fodder for many years to come.

Thanks everybody! You all are so nice! It is a pleasure blogging for this community. Jane, thanks especially for what you said – that means a lot to me. Abel, I’m so sorry you couldn’t come to NYC. I’ll see you in January in NC, no? I hope so!